Okay, I want to discuss that 10% of your brain bullshit, because it infuriates me everytime I see or hear it. Humans use (almost) all of their brains, just not at the same time. We use around 10% percent at any given time, because our brain has areas dedicated to various functions (language skills, motor skills, memory, etc.). How come something so stupid and just plain untrue is still perpetuated? Do these people not have Google? Ugh.
This is also why I will never see Limitless.
If that was intended, then bravo to Sofia Coppola. But I think that was to show "man, this dude has seen and done it all and is so jaded now. Nothing can excite him anymore".
I've stated before on the weird side-blog MOBFD that I like Sofia Coppola, but that I share Gabe's sentiment that she, like many other directors before her get too involved in the Hollywood system and forget how to make a compelling movie for a real audience. I call it M. Night Shyamalan disease.
I can't believe you glossed over those two ridiculous scenes with the syncronised pole dancers, dancing to "My Hero" by the Foo Fighters and another song I forgot. What the hell was that? And they show the entire song! Like, four minutes of it! And let us not forget there is actually a scene where we watch paint dry (well, sculting putty, same dif). This was not a bad movie, this was a bad collage of stuff going on.
While I think there might have been a decent movie in the premise, my main problem is Stephen Dorff as a superstar actor. He doesn't look like a superstar, doesn't dress like a superstar and the promotion he does for his movie does not equate that of a moviestar. The only thing coming close was the Italian TV show, although I felt she redid a scene from Lost in Translation with that specific scene.
So I was fast-forwarding through this, thinking "This is stupid, how bad is it going to get"and somewhere arund the 10 minute mark, they announce George Clinton is playing? Who is awesome? And Brian Posehn is going to be doing stand-up, which is also great. Which makes me so confused, because there are some great acts on there, but it is for terrible people. Like Ozzfest. Very conflicted indeed
Agreed on everything but the Gleecaps, I enjoyed those, but then again, Soft Gabe has already left us... And while I do enjoy trailers, maybe put them into some sort of context or give a more personal analysis of what you expect, I can see trailers on /Film.
Maybe that wasn't that well-phrased, I'll admit, but my point is don't people want to make their friends laugh? Then they want to make you laugh? Because you like each other and just want to have fun together? It's not to assert dominance, it's to show you feel like you belong in that group. That's what most of the commenters want to do.
Seconded! Although I would hate for Gabe to have to sit through The Spirit, The Saint, Spider-Man 3, Batman & Robin and much more, it would make for some great demented ramblings.
YES! I think it's so weird people get upset about one-upping one another. I mean, don't you do that with your real friends too, always trying to be funnier than them? If not, why do people visit Videogum in the first place, because you can see sleepy cats everywhere on the Internet. It's both the orginal content and the great comments that put Videogum apart from any random site out there.
That's probably why I've commented less. I enjoy talking about TV, movies, celebrities and comedy and I feel like both Videogum focuses less on that in recent days (the last entry in the Hunt was over two months ago) and more on viral videos. Like I said, the web is full of bad white rappers, we get it. Plus I feel I personally can indulge in these interest more with podcasts.
Wel, because I imagine you can only do so much with fondant and buttercream, much more attention goes out to creativity. I mean, those eadible dresses and the centre pieces they made for that circus show were really spectacular.
Other than that, the precision cooking bring out much more OCD cheftestants, not to mention the bordeline offensive gay guys. They talk so much about Gail's shoes! Because while you have to have a passion for cooking to want to be a chef, you have to be messed up to want to be a pastry chef.
I agree 100%. At least promise us you will recap the next season of Top Chef: Just Deserts, Gabe. That is just Top Chef, but a MILLION TIMES more color and sugar and bitchfights and drama and uniorns and alliances. Like 21st century social philosopher and writer J. Franco famosly said: so good.
You mad. That was supposed to be a fun movie, you obviously took it too serious. Didn't the dangling baby cue you into the fact that it was a lighthearted movie? Or the midget named Eightball? I'll give you it was 15 minutes too long, but it was a fun little movie. Graham Elwood even brings it up from time to time on Comedy FIlm Nerds on the subject of small movies that are well done.
Now Sucker Punch, that's an entirely different story. But I hear that the extended cut features musical routines and a sex scene between Babydoll and John Hamm, so I'm waiting to nominate that when that cut is out.
I don't know about this one. The first half was pretty great, until they go into the politics of the Fraternity it was a very enjoyable action flick. But the second half with the loom I'll admit was too stupid to make it into a movie.
I don't decide if it fits the rules, but I'm pretty sure at the time of release they were all no-name actors. It's the first time Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson are even in a movie.
I think it fits within the rules of the Hunt, so I want to officially nominate Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie.
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Take arguably the most popular fantasy franchise in the world, with tons of material to craft stories from. Contaning all fantasy tropes, plus creating some own material, everyone is able to write a good idea for a movie based on this. Except the people who actually wrote the movie. Starring Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch, the guy who played Jimmy Olsen and one of the Wayans for some reason, this movie feels kind of like the cartoon, but dumbed down, unfunny and stupid. You could do a better movie by filming LARP’ers with your cell phone.
The special effects were so bad, the story is bullshit, no one has a decent backstory, the make-up was ridiculous, one of the main villains wears blue lipstick? I saw this in theaters and hated it soooooo much. And I was a kid, who liked that kind of stuff (even though never having played D&D). Imagine how all the hardcore gamers who went to see it felt. If you are one, please feel free to share your story here.
Epilogue: The worst thing is that this movie is that is was terrible, but that was at the time somewhat of a given at the time for fantasy movies. One year later: Harry Potter AND LOTR:FOTR drop. Oh snap. Great special effects, believable backstories, the kids in Harry Potter acted better, which makes me hate Dungeons & Dragons even more. So, so, SO bad. Just take everything you like from Game of Thrones and reverse that for D&D. A serious piece of shit if there ever was one.
There is a show by JJ Abrams and Johnathan Nolan starring Ben from LOST that got picked up, should be good. Plus they have a sit-com starring Kat Dennings, that's a thing. Also, there is a grown-up Glee and Grimm could be either insane-terrible or insane-great.
Maybe, I think it's a funny reversal, usually they have women do the voices of boys (Bart Simpson is voiced by Nancy Cartwright, Pamela Adlon did Bobby Hill, a lot of children's cartoons do this too). Plus, if it works, it works.
Really? Because I was listening to his interview on the Nerdist and I though he was doing sketch comedy, not stand-up. Maybe he didn't believe in the jokes then, because I still agree with Gina that the monolgue didn't flow naturally.
So this means Simpsons/Bob's Burgers open thread, yes? Yes.
Bob's Burgers is slowly becoming my favorite animated show. They have some of the best non-sequiters in all of televison. "Gay, gay, mythical creature, gay mythical creature."
I thought it was just kinda badly written. It was a really long set-up for his batton bit, but the jokes in the build-up weren't that funny. But I do think he was also clearly not familiar with doing a monologue/ doing stand-up, because that timing is different from sit-com timing. I wish they had just slapped shades on Jason Sudeikis and a beard on Bobby Moynahan and did a Hangover spoof instead of that weird monologue. Or having E-Helmz rock out on the banjo, one of the two.
That's funny, because in the food world, they say "Everything is better with Bacon". They are all huge Footloose fans.
Also: pretty good episode. Loved the second-hand news segment, the Obama as a stand-up comedian opening was pretty funny, the Republican candidate thing was short and sweet and while What's Up With That got a little convuluted, Jason Sudeikis dancing. Keep it up, SNL!
Agreed! She is the Ace of my heart. Annie was awesome, great episode, hilarious callbacks to last year's paintball episode and the best title sequence so far. Bravo, Community, if you had a few more LOST jokes, this would have been the perfect episode.
I think Scooter have (they are a band, if I'm not mistaken) a decent grasp on the English language, they just say random shit at the beginning of their songs. My favorite is "Tie your Shoes". They also did the German theme song to the New Kids movie that has been featured on videogum before. It is all kinds of ridiculous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ja39PJdrU
But man oh man, I remember when jumpstyle was popular here a few years ago. That was so terrible, you could not even enjoy it ironically. Glad that Eastern Europe has finally caught up.
Only if we also get a Top Chef Masters recap. I'm telling you, that shit is way more ridiculous than the regular show. At the very least we should get Top Chef: Just Desserts recaps, because thoe people are straight up mental compared to the normal cheftestants.
But yeah, Game of Thrones recaps also.
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